fessée
French
editEtymology
editFrom past participle of fesser (“to spank”), originally "to strike"; the verb was influenced in both form and sense by the unrelated fesse (“buttock”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfessée f (plural fessées)
References
edit- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
- H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959 [Latin - Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Further reading
edit- “fessée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.